Every Version Of Miss Elizabeth, Ranked From Worst To Best

Miss Elizabeth was an icon of the professional wrestling business. While she was not an athlete who could hang with the likes of Alundra Blayze, Trish Stratus, or Sasha Banks, she was the greatest valet of all time.

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Accompanying men to the ring—most notably The Macho Man Randy Savage—Elizabeth brought a sense of grace and sophistication to the wrestling product. She was a figure too good and beautiful for the ugly world of combat. Of course, that’s not the only role she played. As time went on, she’d undergo heel turns and character transformations—less famous versions of her wrestling persona, but noteworthy just the same.

9 nWo

The New World Order was a cutting edge faction, and the original slate of nWo members featured cool heels like Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, and Syxx, with a shockingly villainous Hollywood Hogan at its core. As time went on, the group’s identity and elite status wavered, and then Miss Elizabeth joined their ranks.

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To be fair, Elizabeth joining the nWo did serve one of the group’s central tenets of pulling off big surprises. However, she was anything but the cocky, charismatic heel the group called for, and seeing her spray paint her enemies’ bodies felt like a complete misfit for who fans knew her to be.

8 The Horsemen

Early in Miss Elizabeth’s WCW tenure, she had her first, questionable heel turn, sabotaging Randy Savage in favor of joining Ric Flair and The Four Horsemen. WCW did pull of a legitimate surprise with this turn, and working alongside Woman as Flair’s managers took some of the pressure off of Elizabeth to act too heelishly on TV.

Despite these mitigating factors, Elizabeth’s heel turn felt as though it cheapened her character, taking one of wrestling’s ultimate symbols of good and warping it into an unfamiliar shape and context.

7 Managing Lex Luger

In late-stage WCW, Miss Elizabeth spent a stretch of time managing a version of Lex Luger, as well as Team Package—Luger’s short-lived tandem with Ric Flair. By this point, fans had at least gotten used to seeing Elizabeth in a heel role, and the discomfort with seeing her fill that spot had dissipated.

Still, Elizabeth never truly proved herself as a heel performer, and was more of an accessory on Luger’s arm. She did at least have a couple of fun spots in this era,. That included having her hair put on the line opposite Rey Mysterio’s mask, and later getting duped by Sting when he recognized her trying to manipulate him (trading out a can of mace with a can of silly string, so she couldn’t effectively turn on him at Starrcade 1999).

6 Joining The Macho Man In WCW

For as lackluster as Miss Elizabeth’s WCW tenure was on the whole, longtime wrestling fans couldn’t help but smile when she debuted for the company, alongside The Macho Man Randy Savage. The two had always complemented each other well—Elizabeth never quite fitting any other wrestler the same way, and Savage never better than when he defended her honor.

The partnership would be short-lived in WCW, as Elizabeth turned heel soon to join forces with Ric Flair. Still, while it lasted, it hit a sweet spot of nostalgia, and it was good to see the duo back on TV together one last time.

5 Savage’s New Manager

In 1985, Randy Savage was a new recruit for WWE, and the company ran an angle with different managers vying to represent him. In the end, Savage selected another fresh face, revealing Miss Elizabeth to the fans.

While Savage and Elizabeth would need a little time to get their act down, the dynamic of the vicious heel Savage working with this beautiful, humble young woman drew fans in right away. Little could they have guessed how long this story could go, or that the couple was actually married in real life.

4 Feuding With Vince Russo

The end of Miss Elizabeth’s WCW run saw her turn face once again, for a stretch highlighted by a feud with Vince Russo. Russo played a heel authority figure, a far cry from Vince McMahon or Eric Bischoff in that role, for a period that included him trying to place Elizabeth in positions of peril and ultimately booking her to wrestle Daffney.

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The bloom was off the rose for Elizabeth at this point and fans in general were no longer as attached to her as they had been at the height of her popularity in WWE. Nonetheless, it was satisfying for fans to at least see her in a face role one last time before she left the company.

3 Standing By Savage From Afar

Miss Elizabeth entered an interesting stretch of her career following WrestleMania V. Randy Savage was firmly planted as a heel and reinforced his character’s separation from Elizabeth by having Sensational Sherri join him as his new manager. Sherri was everything Elizabeth wasn’t—wicked to her core, and all too eager to physically intervene in matches.

Elizabeth only appeared sporadically over the course of two years, but when she did, she was intertwined with Savage. She showed up at WrestleMania VI, winding up allied with Dusty Rhodes and Sapphire in their opposition to Savage and Sherri. Then, she appeared in the stands when Savage put his career on the line against The Ultimate Warrior at WrestleMania VII to set up her on-air reunion with The Macho Man.

2 Reunited With The Macho Man

Arguably the greatest romantic moment in wrestling history went down at WrestleMania VII. Randy Savage had lost a Retirement Match to The Ultimate Warrior and, in the aftermath, Savage’s manager Queen Sherri attacked. Miss Elizabeth was in the stands and couldn’t stand to watch the scene play out, so she got physically involved in the action for the first time, pulling Sherri off of Savage and reuniting with the estranged love of her life.

They had one of wrestling's most memorable weddings at SummerSlam, which gave way to Savage’s in ring return to feud with Jake Roberts and Ric Flair. The central thread was The Macho Man fighting to defend Elizabeth, bringing out the best of both of them.

1 Managing The Mega Powers

Miss Elizabeth’s dynamic managing a heel Randy Savage while she played a face had always been interesting. Things simplified to an extent when Savage turned face, but only got more interesting when he forged a partnership with Hulk Hogan as The Mega Powers. Elizabeth managed both men and they emerged as the most popular trio in WWE. However, Savage grew increasingly paranoid and jealous of The Hulkster, and Elizabeth was caught in the middle.

Elizabeth played her role of being torn between Hogan the hero and Savage as her partner brilliantly, when the team imploded and wound up headlining WrestleMania V. In remarkable shades-of-gray booking for its time, Elizabeth refused to pick sides, going so far as to stand in a neutral corner for the iconic showdown.

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